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GSWS Graduate Certificate Alum SaraEllen Strongman on Black Feminist Support of Abortion Rights

SaraEllen Strongman, Assistant professor in the department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Penn/GSWS Graduate Certificate alum, recently wrote about the history of Black Feminist support for abortion rights in the Washington Post. She notes: "As abortion rights become an increasingly significant focus for feminists in the 1960s, Black feminists did not place the same emphasis on them as White feminists did.

Message from GSWS/FQT re: Supreme Court Decision

 
We are writing in response to Friday’s devastating Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
The GSWS Program and Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies take seriously our role as the primary space on campus for scholarship and advocacy around the many intersecting issues brought about by this decision. For years we have partnered with faculty, staff, and student organizations around campus to support, facilitate, and create the conditions for reproductive justice for all.

GSWS Undergraduate Award Winners

GSWS/FQT wish to congratulate the winners of this year's Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Lynda Hart awards.
The Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Senior Thesis Award in Women's Studies honors a superior senior thesis paper in the field of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies. The prize is named in honor of distinguished historian Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, a founder of the Women's Studies Program at Penn.

In the wake of disturbing draft opinion concerning Roe v. Wade

Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies
Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Penn Women’s Center
May 3, 2022
 
We wish to offer support to our community following the leak of the disturbing draft opinion concerning Roe v. Wade. During this time of stress, when many are feeling under attack, the Center for Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and the Penn Women’s Center state unequivocally: 
 
Reproductive rights are essential.